Wildlife News Roundup (July 13-19, 2013) | The Wildlife Society News

The endangered Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) continues to be targeted by poachers in its designated recovery area in Arizona and New Mexico. (Credit: Jim Clark/UFWS)

Mexican Gray Wolf Shot, Killed in New Mexico
(The Associated Press via Alamogordo Daily News)
Federal and state wildlife officials have confirmed that an endangered Mexican gray wolf, dubbed F1108, released into the wild in early May was found shot to death just one month later in southwestern New Mexico. No other details were released, and the investigation is ongoing. Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have pointed to illegal shootings as one of the challenges to reintroducing Mexican gray wolves in New Mexico and Arizona. More

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NEWS FROM NORTH AMERICA

Oregon Wildlife Commissioners Revise State Wolf Plan
(Northwest Public Radio)
Oregon?s wildlife commissioners revised the state?s wolf management plan. It allows Fish and Wildlife officers to resume killing wolves that are a danger to livestock. Ranchers could kill wolves caught in the act of preying on cattle or sheep. The agreement reflects a year?s worth of compromise from ranchers to environmental groups like Oregon Wild. More

Feds Lay Groundwork to List Sage Grouse as ?Threatened?
(The Watch)
The writing is on the wall; the Gunnison sage grouse is likely headed toward being listed as a ?threatened? species under the Endangered Species Act. County commissioners from Ouray, San Miguel and Montrose counties all emerged with this conclusion following a meeting at Western State Colorado University with United States Fish and Wildlife Services Director Dan Ashe. More

Angry Birders: Farm Bill in Flux Imperils Feathered Friends
(Grist)
With the farm bill in flux, it?s looking more and more likely that the environment will take a hit. The Conservation Reserve Program, which recently accounted for 7 percent of farm bill funding, essentially pays farmers to produce wildlife, instead of producing crops. Since there?s no market that rewards farmers for preserving biodiversity, or enriching the world with birdsong, it?s the sort of thing that government is uniquely equipped to do. More

Florida Commission Presents 10-year Plan for Everglades
(WGCU-FM)
The Florida Wildlife Commission recently presented its 10-year plan for conservation of the Everglades. The plan sets priorities for the years 2014 to 2024. Stephen Mahoney of Sierra Club Miami expresses concern that the plan does not take into account sea-level rise. ?Wherever we are in Florida, we?re not very far from the sea,? Mahoney said. ?And so things like, factors like, salt-water intrusion, which is caused by sea-level rise, could be a major factor.? More

Scientists Put Attitudes Toward Tigers on the Map
(WSYM-TV)
It?s easier to feel positive about the endangered tiger in your backyard if you live on the good side of town. Researchers at Michigan State University study what influences people?s attitudes toward tigers that share their neighborhood in Nepal?s Chitwan National Park, home to around 125 tigers. The novel approach to putting people?s attitudes on a map is featured in the current issue of the journal AMBIO. More

SeaWorld Orlando Returns Four Manatees to Wild
(Central Florida News 13)
SeaWorld Orlando has returned four manatees to their natural environment. The manatees have been rehabilitating at SeaWorld Orlando for several months. SeaWorld?s Animal Rescue Team released them at Eddy Creek in Brevard County. All four manatees are females. More

Hillary Clinton Joins Fight Against Elephant Poaching
(Time)
Despite international bans, demand for ivory from elephant tusks has grown so strong that it has devastated elephant populations in Africa. Now former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, wants to help. According to the Washington Post, Clinton has met with representatives from many environmental groups and National Geographic to formulate a plan. More

WILDLIFE HEALTH AND DISEASE NEWS

Study: Imported Bumblebees Pose Risk to UK?s Wild and Honeybee Population
(The Guardian)
Over three-quarters of the thousands of bumblebee colonies imported into the U.K. every year are riddled with parasites, a new study has revealed. Scientists say the discovery has ?alarming? implications for the health of the U.K.?s wild bees and honeybees, many of which are already in serious decline, and that urgent action is required to improve ineffective disease screening and close loopholes. More

Mysterious Condition Causing Paralysis, Death in Ravens in Canada
(UPI)
A strange affliction has been paralyzing and then killing ravens in a region of British Columbia, wildlife experts say. Leona Green, who runs a wildlife rehabilitation center where more than 30 paralyzed ravens have been brought since May, said she?s never seen anything like it. ?Their legs were paralyzed, and then they actually atrophied,? she said. ?They almost looked like they were mummified.? More

Seaweed Toxins Might be Killing Florida Manatees
(Tampa Bay Times)
A government research chemist has isolated what he calls ?a suite of toxins? on seaweed eaten by the 112 manatees that have died in Florida?s Indian River Lagoon. Some of the toxins may be previously unidentified by science, and flourished because of sewage-fueled algae blooms that killed sea grass. ?These animals are swimming in some highly toxic water,? said Peter Moeller, chemist with the National Ocean Service. More

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Study Confirms a Wealth of Primates in Tanzania
(redOrbit)
A Wildlife Conservation Society research team has completed a five-year study that gives new hope to some of the world?s most endangered primates. The study, published in Oryx, establishes a road-map to protect all 27 species in Tanzania ? the most primate-diverse country in mainland Africa. The researchers combined Tanzania?s first-ever inventory of all primate species and their habitats with the IUCN Red List criteria and other factors such as threats and rarity. More

Three Snow Leopard Cubs Revealed at U.K. Zoo
(BBC)
Three rare snow leopard cubs born at a United Kingdom zoo have taken their first steps outside their den as they went on show to the public earlier. They were born at Marwell Zoo, near Winchester, Hampshire, 12 weeks ago. Having had their vaccinations, the female and two male cubs have now been allowed to venture outside for the first time. The snow leopard is an endangered species with possibly as few as 4,000 animals remaining in the world. More

China has Giant Pandas, but India has Gharials and Gangetic Dolphins
(National Geographic)
As humans continue to encroach on waterways and wild lands and develop them to the extent they can, some species may vanish with or without our attempts to conserve them. With that said, we continue to fail at keeping illegal poachers at bay; we continue to reproduce exponentially; we fail to reduce our carbon footprint; and we also fail to mitigate the effects of climate change, among other things. More

Source: http://news.wildlife.org/featured/wildlife-news-roundup-july-13-19-2013/

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